Charles (Chuck) Morrissey
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Introduction

Charles Morrissey bio - Pepperdine

Section 1


Section 2


Main Content


Section 1

The Laptop, Circa 1968 - Technologizer

Section 2 - Draft Essay: The Concept and Evolution of Personal Computing

by Charles Morrissey

June 25, 2017
DRAFT
The Concept and Evolution of Personal Computing

Concept Pioneers
1945 Vannevar Bush “As We May Think” (Atlantic Monthly) article-get link

1966 “The Challenge of the Computer Utility”Parkhill (Addison-Wesley) 1966

A look back at these “concepts”
http://cs.brown.edu/~rms/50YearsAfter.pdf
(has invaluable graphics)

MIT history of the time sharing concepts
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html
Pioneering projects

???? MIT MULTICS, LOGO Papert
1959 DEC Olson
1960 PLATO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
1962 Computer Time Sharing- Dartmouth (Kemeny and Kurtz)
https://search.aol.com/aol/video?q=youtube++Dartmouth+Birth+of+BASIC&s_it=video-ans&sfVid=true&videoId=40DBD596A1B3D34434D440DBD596A1B3D34434D4 &v_t=webmail-searchbox
Computer Time Sharing -MIT
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html
1964 Darpanet research US Govt
1966 Computer Time Sharing for Education Time Share Corporation (Morrissey and Bueschel)
1964 Digital Research Corporation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M-86#CP.2FM-86_Plus
1966 Patrick Suppes
“The Uses of Computers in Education” Scientific American 1966
1968 Englebart Many “mouse “ demos on youtube
PIONEERING APPLICATIONS
1966 The Teachers Clinic Dartmouth Tuck School (Journal of Accounting Research)
1969 Spring Joint Computer Conference
“Design Considerations for an educational time-sharing system” Hargraves (Dartmouth) and Stevenson (Time Share)
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1476907&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=948873167&CFTOKEN=51070305#URL\\
1970 Guidance Information System (TimeShare Corp
1972 DYNABOOK Alan Kay (XEROX PARC) youtube
1974 CPM86 Digital Research (Gary Kildall)
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/gary-kildall-40th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-the-pc-operating-system/

The Personal Computer Era

1975 Altair BASIC Microsoft ( Gates)
1976 APPLE 1 (Jobs)

1980 Summary
The introduction of the personal computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers

PIONEERING PUBLICATIONS
1960 Computers and Automation ( Pat McGovern)
1978 “Computer Applications in Instruction: A Teachers guide to Selection and Use.. TimeShare (A Houghton Mifflin Company}
__https://ccl.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=no:5125981__

1980 Library of Congress
“Information Technology and its Impact on Education”
www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1982/8216/8216.PDF
Other references
What is Educational Technology?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology

https://books.google.com/books/about/Individualized_Computational_Skills_Prog.html?id=19lotwAACAAJ


Earlier Version

June 18, 1917
DRAFT
A Framework for the Evolution of Personal Computing

Pioneers
1945 Vannevar Bush “As We May Think”
http://cs.brown.edu/~rms/50YearsAfter.pdf
???? MULTICS, LOGO Papert
1959 DEC Olson
1962 Kemeny and Kurtz BASIC
1964 Computer Time Sharing Dartmouth, MIT
1966 Computer Time Sharing for Education Time Share Corporation (Morrissey and Bueschel)
1964 DARPANET US Govt
19?? CPM86 Digital Research Gary Kildall
1975 Altair BASIC Microsoft

APPLICATIONS
1966 Tuck Speadsheet
1970Guidance Information System (TimeShare Corp)

JOURNALS
1960 Computers and Automation Pat McGovern

CONFERENCES
AFIPS Fall Joint, 1967
Papers
ACM


http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/gary-kildall-40th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-the-pc-operating-system/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M-86#CP.2FM-86_Plus

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1476907&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=948873167&CFTOKEN=51070305#URL\\
LINKS
http://www.tojet.net/articles/v4i2/424.pdf

www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk3/1982/8216/8216.PDF

https://ccl.on.worldcat.org/search?databaseList=638&queryString=no:5125981

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_technology

https://books.google.com/books/about/Individualized_Computational_Skills_Prog.html?id=19lotwAACAAJ


http://learnkit.com/2015/12/15/the-evolution-of-elearning-then-now-whats-changed/

https://search.aol.com/aol/video?q=youtube++Dartmouth+Birth+of+BASIC&s_it=video-ans&sfVid=true&videoId=40DBD596A1B3D34434D440DBD596A1B3D34434D4&v_t=webmail-searchbox



Miscellaneous


Section 1 - Videos


Section 2


References